904 Best Practices for Developing, Implementing, and Supporting Serious Games

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Thursday, March 28

Games and Gamification

Salon 4

Many people in the eLearning field are trying to use gamification and
serious games to spark employee engagement and drive learning retention. Everyone
is working to make the best serious game that will enhance the learning objectives
and retain learning. The biggest setbacks for some of these serious games and gamified
learning experiences have been little to no planning, tough-to-pinpoint metrics,
little to no implementation strategy, and insufficient or nonexistent post-deployment
support.

There are many serious games that are built for companies and for internal
use within the eLearning industry. This session will discuss what makes a serious
game a success or a failure. You’ll hear about planning, developing, implementing,
and supporting serious games for companies that have never gone down the route of
serious games and gamified learning experiences. You’ll also learn the proper steps
to take throughout each phase of the project to ensure success, including best practices
and pain points you may have to deal with when going down the route of gamification
and serious games.

In this session, you
will learn:

Best practices to ensure a successful serious
game implementation

How these serious games are living, breathing
things

Best practices taken by other organizations
in regard to phases of the effort

A framework for how to start thinking about
game design as an educator

Andrew Hughes

President

Designing Digitally, Inc.

Andrew Hughes, who founded Designing Digitally, Inc. in 2001, has extensive experience in the development of enterprise immersive learning solutions for government and many of the Fortune 500 companies. He is a professor at the University of Cincinnati and has been a consultant for the Ohio Board of Regents and the US Department of Education for the Office of Innovation, where he helped to develop groundbreaking learning spaces for the K-12 sector. Andrew was also named 2016 Learning! Champion from eLearning! Magazine, and has been recognized for many honorable learning and development awards with his team at Designing Digitally, Inc.